Mr and Mrs Angadi

In 1939 a young English artist Patricia Fell-Clarke met Ayana Angadi, an Indian journalist and lecturer living in London. Despite heavy family pressure they married and in 1946 Mr and Mrs Angadi set up The Asian Music Circle, a cultural organisation which aimed "to create in the West a better understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Orient through their music and dance". Their reach and influence was considerable. With world renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin joining as president in 1953, through the 1950s and 60s, they built an International organisation with over fifteen thousand members. It was the Asian Music Circle who brought Ravi Shankar to play his first performance in 'the West', who brought Ustad Vilayat Khan to Aldeburgh Festival in 1958, and who brought India's most admired singer of the 20th Century, MS Subbulakshmi, to Edinburgh International Festival in 1963. They also booked Indian classical musicians for recording sessions with Peter Sellers and The Beatles, and in the Angadi's suburban living room BKS Iyengar gave Britain's first public yoga class. It was there, in their home that George Harrison met Ravi Shankar.

This is the story of a couple, a family, and a home that altered the evolution of British culture.

Featuring Chandrika Casali (née Angadi), Susheila Nasta, Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University and The Open University, musicians Buddhadev Kansara and Arun Ghosh, and yoga teacher Korinna Pilafidis-Williams.

Presenter - Sindhu Vee
Sound - Rhys Morris
Production co-ordinator - Eleri McAuliffe
Producer John Norton
A BBC Audio Wales Production